Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A crime committed by having unorthodox, unofficial, controversial or socially unacceptable thoughts.
Etymologies
- Coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Any attempt to deny a thoughtcrime is itself a thoughtcrime.”
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.”
“The book contributed several iconic terms to the political lexicon -- "Big Brother," "thoughtcrime" -- and perhaps most profoundly prescient -- the concept of "doublethink.”
The Huffington Post: George Orwell is Reborn as Mitch McConnell
“In George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labelling unapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime or, in Newspeak, "crimethink".”
“Dubious -- but if anyone wants to defend the idea of "thoughtcrime," be my guest.”
“This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking "thoughtcrime" or speech impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on.”
“Some people believe governments may be currently enforcing laws that implement a de-facto kind of thoughtcrime legislation.”
“This suited the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim was to make subversive thought ( "thoughtcrime") and speech impossible.”
“The real issue here is about getting the ISP’s in a position to filter content, specifically content that is politically ‘inconvenient’ or could be labelled thoughtcrime hate-crime.”
“If you want to try to define the various things that Operation Predator as "thoughtcrime", go right ahead but the vast majority of Americans think that individuals that take concrete steps to, say, have intercourse with a young child ought to be punished.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thoughtcrime’.
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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Nineteen Eighty-four
memory hole, newspeak, doublethink, room 101, doubleplus, ungood, thoughtcrime, thought police, ingsoc, big brother, fullwise, duckspeak and 19 more...
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BigBrother's list
doubleplusgood, bigbrother, ungood, goodthinkful, crimethink, thoughtcrime, crimestop, doublethink, ingsoc, minitrue, pornosec, duckspeak and 2 more...
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to acquire
moustache, thoughtcrime, lift, overall, razor, strength, oily, gin, oily gin, brotherhood, dull, toward and 108 more...
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Man likes these words
danube, schadenfreude, macabre, wanderlust, epiphany, azure, zeitgeist, cerulean, ennui, rhine, abyss, mulch and 130 more...
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logophile
viresce, infinitum, transient, nonpareil, anon, therianthropy, lycomania, halcyon, unblinkered, seraphim, nephilim, moros and 160 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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KasunCho's Words
wanderlust, pernicious, seraphim, whisperling, snapshot, maudlin, cimmerian, tryst, composure, ethereal, vile, maudlin and 17 more...
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Jay.Dugger's Words
This list collects all the words I've added to Wordie but not categorized by assigning them to a particular sub-list.
asthenosphere, rogation, inamorata, aetiology, apotropaism, normalization of ..., axiology, epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, selcouth, thoughtcrime
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Newspeak
Found in George Orwell's 1984
newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime, crimethink, ingsoc, goodthink, bellyfeel, prole, ungood, duckspeak, goodsex, ownlife and 6 more...
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wilywillamina's list
Stuff I dig.
douchebaggery, omphalophobia, onimancy, grammerletist, logophile, lexiphanicism, pharmacopoeia, excerebrose, thoughtcrime, lickspigot, quantum materiae ..., hyperbaton and 19 more...
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Words from Literature
bellyfeel, grok, goodthink, crimethink, thoughtcrime, duckspeak, ownlife, doublethink, facecrime
Tweets
Looking for tweets for thoughtcrime.
PossibleUnderscore "The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1 Jul 26, 2009